ELVIS PRESLEY
Morgan Breitenbach
Junior Division
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Process Paper:
Morgan Breitenbach
Junior Division
Website
Process Paper:
The topic that I decided to do for National History Day was Elvis Presley. I got the idea of this topic by looking up the National History Day overall topic. I looked through all the different things and found out that I could do a project on Elvis Presley. I decided on this topic because I wanted to do something that not many people would do.
To find my research I mainly used websites. I used google to look things up about Elvis Presley. What I looked up on google was just Elvis Presley’s name and I went through all of the different sites until I found one that had lots of different information. Most of the sites were not very useful only a few were worth looking at for information. Most of the sources I found were documents that were biographies of Elvis. One of the sources was a newspaper from the day after Elvis died. I found many different secondary sources and one primary source.
Before I looked up anything about Elvis, all I knew was that he was a famous rockstar that died in his home at a very young age. After I did the first half of my research I soon realized the he had a twin that died at birth and that his full name was Elvis Aaron Presley. Then shortly after the second half of my research I learned that he was in the U.S. Army. I learned a lot more about Elvis Presley after I researched him than I knew before I researched Elvis Presley.
I am planning on delivering my presentation in the form of a website. I chose to do a website because it sounded the most interesting and the most fun to work on. I didn’t want to do the others because I thought it would be too much work to do by myself. I have always loved creating things electronically and so I thought that a website would be the best format for me to present my findings. Elvis Presley fit in with the National History Day topic “Taking A Stand in History” because, in a time in history, when segregation and racism were most prevalent, and the topic of the media, he produced a sound that all Americans, both black and white, could listen to, and brought the communities closer together and helped close the gap between the two races.
To find my research I mainly used websites. I used google to look things up about Elvis Presley. What I looked up on google was just Elvis Presley’s name and I went through all of the different sites until I found one that had lots of different information. Most of the sites were not very useful only a few were worth looking at for information. Most of the sources I found were documents that were biographies of Elvis. One of the sources was a newspaper from the day after Elvis died. I found many different secondary sources and one primary source.
Before I looked up anything about Elvis, all I knew was that he was a famous rockstar that died in his home at a very young age. After I did the first half of my research I soon realized the he had a twin that died at birth and that his full name was Elvis Aaron Presley. Then shortly after the second half of my research I learned that he was in the U.S. Army. I learned a lot more about Elvis Presley after I researched him than I knew before I researched Elvis Presley.
I am planning on delivering my presentation in the form of a website. I chose to do a website because it sounded the most interesting and the most fun to work on. I didn’t want to do the others because I thought it would be too much work to do by myself. I have always loved creating things electronically and so I thought that a website would be the best format for me to present my findings. Elvis Presley fit in with the National History Day topic “Taking A Stand in History” because, in a time in history, when segregation and racism were most prevalent, and the topic of the media, he produced a sound that all Americans, both black and white, could listen to, and brought the communities closer together and helped close the gap between the two races.